Sine Qua Non

Cut and Run

With the economy improving and what I expect to be continued progress in Iraq, despite the quagmire fixated naysayers, I wonder when Congressional Democrats will begin to worry about Bush's coattails in the general election 367 days hence and abandon The Nine + Hillary! and start saying things like, "We understand that you believe President Bush deserves to be reelected, but please don't give the Republicans 60 votes in the Senate, so that they can stop our filibuster of judicial nominees and pack the Supreme Court with 8 more Clarence Thomas ideological clones." Or maybe, "Please don't give the Republicans any more votes in the House of Representatives so that they can destroy the environment, unsave the children, let Tom DeLay spray Roundup on the Medicare vine, rob the Social Security Trust Fund, and expand the War on Terrorism to Iran and North Korea." Or maybe, "Hey, we believe that national security is job one too, no matter what Howard Dean (or Wesley Clark or John Kerry) says."

The next general election is on my birthday! Guess what I'm wishing for.